 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 Seiten
...Philadelphia in 1787 as about the best that could be hoped for from the delegates' most sincere efforts, given "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views" (W9:608). Returning to natural philosophy, we have seen (above, 2.1) how ongoing experimentation... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...it, when the people shall hecome so corrupted as to need despotic government, heing incapable of my other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may he able to make a hetter Constitution; for, when you assemble a numher of men, to have the advantage... | |
 | Edward W. Ryan - 2000 - 326 Seiten
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 | Roland S. Barth - 2001 - 273 Seiten
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 | Thomas G. Chenoweth, Robert B. Everhart - 2002 - 296 Seiten
...to change opinions even on important subjects which I once though right, but found to be otherwise. ...For when you assemble a number of men to have the...their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interest, and their selfish views. . . .The opinions I have had of its (The Constitution) errors I... | |
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I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution ; for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their... 
